lead safety

We finally received our lead inspection report today. (The certified lead inspector was supposed to get it to us by 10/10.) It's 44 pages, and overwhelming me. Maybe it's because I'm coming down with a nasty sinus infection and all I want to do is sleep all day (and I can't, because I have little [...]

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she's three!

It hardly seems that I have a three-year-old. My baby is sooooo big!
In honor of Maya's birthday, why not check out Maya and Ellery's new blog?
Happy, happy birthday, my girl! Honey Mommy loves you!

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I can see thirty better than twenty nowadays.

Yesterday I celebrated the 26th anniversary of my birth!
I called my mom to say thank you.
Jason took me out to a Thai restaurant for dinner. I had Pumpkin Chicken Curry (anyone have a recipe?), and it was yummy. We had our longest uninterrupted conversation in months. For nearly two hours, I didn't think [...]

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It's ours!

We own the house! The keys are on my keyring. Hurrah!

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toofers

Ellery has her first tooth! Yay, Elle! It's a little razor-sharp bump protruding from her lower gums. She sure doesn't like when we try to feel it, either.
Now she's met all the milestones for starting solids–sitting well, interested in food, and has teeth. I've fed her little pieces of my bananas a few times [...]

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23rd post

The rules are:
1. Search your blog archive.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the fifth sentence (this is meant to say something about you).
4. Post that sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag five people to do the same.
Here's mine:
“It’s the long-term commitment that counts.”
I was commenting about a diet I was on. But [...]

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disasters

All of these natural disasters have me thinking. And feeling a bit insecure, you know. I mean, first it was the tsunami, then hurricanes Katrina and Rita, then this Pakistani-Indian earthquake. Add to that the avian flu pandemic threat, and the world just seems a bit unsettled as of late.
I know natural disasters happen all [...]

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we're back!

We're back into cloth diapers again. Since we're visiting family in Michigan this weekend, we knew we'd have access to a washer/dryer set. By the time we get back on Wednesday, we should be all set to close on the house, which has an old washer/dryer in the basement. The house is all of 30 [...]

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our house

Well, here are the promised pics of our house:
Before Pictures
We hope to follow with a beautiful set of “after” pictures over the years! First order of business: boring stuff (wiring, plumbing, hot water heater, weeds, duct cleaning, etc). Next: kitchen and paint. Wahoo!
We've also started a house blog, for those of you who like that [...]

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